This paper provides an overview of the work of Gigerenzer, thereby focusing on his criticisms of the Heuristics and Biases theory of Kahneman and Tversky. It is proposed that Gigerenzer's work can be both thematically and chronologically organized as: historical research on statistics =...

The method appropriate to the historical and conceptual investigation of Hayek's ideas is implicit in his own writings on the methodology of disciplines that study complex phenomena. The phenomena of Hayek's career are complex phenomena requiring a method appropriate to this complexity.

Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...

Anglo-American and Hungarian economic historians follow different semantic patterns describing the same subjects. While the authors writing in English use three distinct terms to signify business history, entrepreneurship and the theory of the firm, the corresponding Hungarian words share a...

Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...

This paper provides an overview of the work of Gigerenzer, thereby focusing on his criticisms of the Heuristics and Biases theory of Kahneman and Tversky. It is proposed that Gigerenzer's work can be both thematically and chronologically organized as: historical research on statistics =...

Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...

Anglo-American and Hungarian economic historians follow different semantic patterns describing the same subjects. While the authors writing in English use three distinct terms to signify business history, entrepreneurship and the theory of the firm, the corresponding Hungarian words share a...

This is the second of two essays on the influences of Peter Drucker's exposure to proponents of the Austrian School of economics on his writing and philosophical views. In the first essay, “On the Foundations of the Drucker Vision,” I review the major influences that appear to have shaped...

This research paper was presented at the 75th Anniversary celebration of Lionel Robbins celebrated Essay by the LSE in December 2007. It tries to ‘explode the traditional definition of Robbins' as a science that studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have...